Author Marilyn Sachs -- founder of the San Francisco branch of the Jane Austen Society -- has written a novel about our Jane! First Impressi...

Cheers! I've just discovered the Neil Gaiman interview at Bookslut! And it's just another click to the montly Booksluts in Training...

Thank God it's Monday and all the partying is over. I go away for a long and torturous wedding weekend (Sister of the Bride and Coordina...

I'm thinking about preschoolers... Now, there's a topic which doesn't often get broached on Writing YA, but preKindergarteners...

Epistolary novels are so hit-or-miss for me. It's not an easy format to do well—letters can seem contrived or antiquated, diary entries ...

Cranky and sore, I greet the new week! After yanking out the summer garden this weekend to prepare for the autumn kale, all I want to do is ...

This book is a 2006 Cybil Award Nominee for YA Fiction. I was interested in the subject matter of It's Kind of a Funny Story , because...

It all starts with a stolen purse. Well, actually it all starts because Lulu Dark is an airheaded snob with major issues, and a complete ina...

Gilda Joyce is a little fibber. Okay, she's a big fibber, a huge liar, but at least she... um, tries to make the lies she tells come tru...

Wow -- Becky's sure a loser. Her hair is awful, her clothes are awful, and even her PE teacher seems to really dislike her -- she calls ...

This book is a 2006 Cybil Award Nominee for YA Fiction. Meg Moore has finally become accustomed to having a stepmother... for the most par...

17th century England is an astonishing place, filled with the plays of Shakespeare, the sermons of John Dryden, the wit of poets, and the sh...

I am definitely enjoying this new crop (if two books is a crop) of fantasy books that, instead of eking further mileage out of a romanticize...

Technically, this is the end of Banned Books Week, and you may wonder why such a big deal is made of the one week a year where everyone remi...

When a YA novel with religious content is accepted for publication, I believe that somewhere a bell rings in a tiny, stuffy office deep ins...

What happens when we're growing up, with our bodies, with our souls, and with our sexuality, can change the way we look at things and wh...

During my disturbing conversation yesterday with a personal trainer at my gym, the fact that I am a writer somehow came up. As is often the...

"Putting children in jeopardy." That was the topic of the conversation this morning between The Great Maurice Sendak and NPR affil...

I'm always happy to discover a new author I like, especially one who can weave together various genres to create a fully realized story ...

Libby Brin is so bored with her life that it's scaring her. She's bored into shaking. She's bored into weeping. She's bored...